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You leap from your saddle and place your shoulder against the trunk of the fallen pine. Intoning the words of the Brotherhood Spell Strength, you push hard and cause the trunk to shift violently. This sudden jolt loosens the compacted earth, making it crack and crumble. Hastily, you roll away as the tree trunk sinks with the collapsing edge of the ravine. As you are rising to your feet, you see the tree and the loosened earth fall away. The doomwolves howl with terror as they tumble off the trunk and plummet to their doom at the base of the ravine, one hundred feet below.

Turn to 236.